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The next Select Board and Planning Board meetings — dates, times and where — read from the town's own calendar rather than worked out from which Wednesday it usually is.
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Select Board
Wednesday, September 2 · 5:30 PM
The Select Board and the Planning Board both meet in the Community Meeting Room at 21 School Street, and both are open to anyone who wants to sit in. The dates below are read straight from the calendar the town publishes, a few times a day.
That matters more than it sounds. The boards keep to a pattern most months — first and third Wednesday, first Monday — but not every month. The Planning Board's September meeting is on the second Monday, because the first is Labor Day and the office is shut; November's is on the second Monday too. Working the dates out from the pattern would send you to a locked door about three times a year.
The town’s own calendar is the last word
These dates are read automatically from the town’s published calendar, so they can change after we read them — a meeting is cancelled, moved for a holiday, or a special session is added. Check the town’s page before you set out.
The town’s calendar (damariscottame.com)
The town's elected board of five. Between town meetings it is who decides: the budget that goes onto the warrant, the roads, the licences and the appointments.
Usually the first and third Wednesday at 5:30 pm, but read the dates rather than the rule — there is no third-Wednesday meeting in October 2026.
11 meetings coming up — every one of them at 5:30 PM, Community Meeting Room - 21 School Street Damariscotta ME 04543
Applications to build, subdivide, or change what a property is used for — site plan review against the town's land-use ordinances.
Usually the first Monday at 6 pm, moved to the second Monday when the first falls on a holiday.
6 meetings coming up — every one of them at 6:00 PM, Community Meeting Room - 21 School Street Damariscotta ME 04543
Monday, September 7, 2026
Damariscotta ME 04543
Indigenous Peoples' Day - OFFICE CLOSED
Monday, October 12, 2026
Damariscotta ME 04543
ELECTION DAY - State Gubernatorial Election
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
8:00 AM · Damariscotta ME 04543
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
Damariscotta ME 04543
Thursday, November 26, 2026
Damariscotta ME 04543
Friday, December 25, 2026
Friday, January 1, 2027
Knowing the board sits on Wednesday does not tell you whether your road is on the list. The agenda is a separate document, posted before each meeting in the town's Agenda Center along with the minutes of the last one — and the Agenda Center also carries the Budget Committee, the Shellfish Committee, the Cemetery Trustees, the Comprehensive Plan Committee and the Public Works Committee, none of which publish their dates to the calendar this page reads.
Both boards meet in public in the Community Meeting Room at 21 School Street. You do not need to be on the agenda to sit in and listen.
Whether there is a slot for public comment depends on the meeting and on what is on the agenda that night. The town office can tell you before you go, and can say whether an item you care about is on the list.
Read from the town’s calendar August 26, 2026 at 5:56 AM.